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Starting in May, the Cité des Métiers launches free online workshops and personalized service on employability, entrepreneurship and key competences, digital tools and international mobility. Enjoy this period of social distancing to improve competence development and to reboot your professional project.

The Emergency Support Line to Associations in Porto, worth 150 thousand euros, is open from 28th April till 8th May. After the Municipal Executive approval of this measure, the application form is available at the Municipality's website. This mechanism aims to immediately contribute to associations' petty cash found.

Porto Botanical Garden is showing its beautiful gardens to the world, as its 750 camellia species were awarded the "International Garden of Excellence" prize. The award was granted by the International Camellia Society, following an application submitted by the Direction of the Botanical Garden of the University of Porto, jointly with the Portuguese Camellia Association. An international jury set up by 28 elements unanimously decided to grant the award to Porto Botanical Garden.

The local testing to nursing homes in Porto kicked off on 29th March and concluded last Friday, on 24th April. Circa 5 thousand people were tested for Covid-19, elderly and caretakers, with or with no symptoms. The programme is innovative in the country because it tests everyone within nursing homes. About 1.4% of the people tested confirmed positive for Covid-19, the majority being caretakers of these nursing homes.

There is splendid cinematic offer by Medeia Cinephile Quarantine, as every week there are three phenomenal films to watch for free at home. This week is all about Werner Schroeter's films.

A true army of volunteers is helping stem the spread of Covid-19 at the Field Hospital "Porto.", which came into operation on 14th April. TV Station SIC went to the hospital to see how things are running. Watch the report here.

Starting on 4th May, teaching staff, workers, researchers and students of the U.Porto will be able to access free serological tests to determine the level of immunity to Covid-19. The University of Porto will be one of the first institutions in Portugal to provide immunity testing to Covid-19 to its academic community, whenever these members need to restart face-to-face activities within the university facilities, they will be able to perform a free serological test to determine the degree of...

FairJourney Biologics, leading global antibody discovery companies, founded in Porto, announced a partnership with Iontas, one of the main healthcare manufacturing solutions Company in Cambridge, UK . The aim is to bring together complementary services and technology to enable faster identification of effective antibodies that will be the most successful in the development phase.

The Porto Solidário Programme, created in 2014, has helped 2.336 families by providing monthly partnership to rent or bank mortgages for twelve months. The programme was proposed by Rui Moreira during the electoral campaign in 2013, and it will now be extended over the next two years, by proposal of Councillor Fernando Paulo.

This year, due to the pandemic and the Emergency State, the celebrations to mark the 1974 Revolution and the end of the dictatorship will not take to the streets, but the commission urges people to chant from windows, at 3pm.